Silicones
Silicone is a generic term denoting compounds which have a backbone of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with additives hanging off the silicon atoms as pendant groups. Silicon and oxygen...
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NATIONAL REPORT Experts weighing in on the advantages of silicone gel versus saline implants offer equivocating observations. Some say silicone gel breast implants represent a welcome option f...
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Plastic surgeons expect breast implants filled with silicone gel to supplant those containing salt water as the most popular choice of the nearly 300,000 U.S. women a year who h...
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In many spots, the factory looks like an especially clean industrial kitchen. Workers are covered from head to toe in surgical scrubs. Stacked on stainless steel rolling trays are mounds of various...
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The government ended a 14-year virtual ban on silicone-gel breast implants Friday despite lingering safety questions, making the devices available to tens of thousands of women ...
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A coalition of technology companies and environmental groups led by Google Inc. and Intel Corp. launched an initiative Tuesday to conserve electricity and curb global warming emissions by making th...
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There are certain grand historical fights that you think are over, tucked into the quaint Snoopy lunchbox of the past like a Capri Sun or bologna sandwich. Remember the Dalkon Shield I.U.D. uproar ...
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There are certain grand historical fights that you think are over, tucked into the quaint Snoopy lunchbox of the past like a Capri Sun or bologna sandwich. Remember the Dalkon Shield I.U.D. uproar ...
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In many spots, the factory looks like an especially clean industrial kitchen. Workers are covered from head to toe in surgical scrubs. Stacked on stainless steel rolling trays are mounds of various...
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Singapore (dpa) - A Singapore-developed treatment is undergoing
testing in patients with pancreatic cancer, one of the most
aggressive types of the disease, a team of resear...
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IBM Corp. says it has developed a greener method for recycling precious silicon that is wasted during computer chip manufacturing.For microprocessors and other computer chips to be made, discs of s...
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Silicones
Silicone uptake Cosmetic surgeons embracing silicone gel — mostly
